THIRTY YEARS' RECORD 



CLASS OF 1855, 



BABTlieUTI GftUEGE. 



BY THE SECRETARY. 



BOSTON : 
Press of T. O Metcalf & Co., 48 Oliver Street. 

1885. 



THIRTY-YEARS' RECORD 



CLASS OF 1855, 



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'Class OF '55," Dartmouth College. 



In making this second Report of the Class of 1855, while 
leaving out some important facts in personal history which 
were published in the first Report, I have retained all that 
is really essential to make the record complete in itself. A 
few of the Class do not respond to my earnest appeals for 
information. 

Not one of the seventy, that were at different times con- 
nected with the Class, died while we were in College. As an 
indirect consequence there was nothing to bind us together 
as that might have done. Though there was no real want of 
harmony in the Class, yet the bond of sympathy which began 
to be effective early in Sophomore year faded out in subsequent 
years, superseded by societies with or without Greek symbols. 

The angel of death has called fourteen of us, and the rest 
are scattered from Maine to California, and from Minnesota to 
Texas. It is very desirable that any information concerning 
any member of the Class should be communicated at once to 
the Secretary, 

EDW. P. SCALES, M. D. 
Newton, Mass., December, 1885. 



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THE CLASS OF 1855. 



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GRADUATES. 



Allen, W. H. H. 
Baker, John R. 
*Banfield, J. H. 
Barnes, I. N, 
Bates, Fred. 
Benner, E. R. 
Bickford, J. M. 
Bond, S. R. 
Chamberlain, J. M. 
Chamberline, J. S. 
Clark, B. 
Clark, G. 
Cobb, J. T. 
Dalpe, J. 
*Dearborn, S. S. 
Dinglej, N., Jr. 
Dow, W. D. 
*Draper, E. G. 
Dutton, G. 
Fellows, F. E. 
Field, W. A. 
*Greenough, E. G. 
Hardy, Silas. 
Harris, S. S. 
♦Haseltine, N. S. 
♦Howe, R. 

* Passed on, 14 



Jameson, E. O. 

Kimball, H. M. 

Kimball, J. R. 

Knapp, W. D. 

Ladd, W. S. 
*Lund, C. C. 
♦Morrill, S. S. 

Nye, C. 

Patten, D. D. 

Perkins, H. W. 

Pike, A. J. 
♦Porter, J. F. 

Quigg, D. 
♦Richards, C. 
♦Robinson, F. M. 

Rowell, W. K. 

Sanborn, E. B. S. 

Scales, E. P. 

Southgate, R. S. 
♦Stearns, D. 
♦Taylor, J. E. 
♦Tenney, C. A. 

Thomas, E. A. 

Upton, E. A. 

Valentine, J. K. 

Wallace, R. 



Total, 52. 



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BIOGRAPHIC ANNALS. 



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GRADUATES. 



WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ALLEN. 

Lawyer — Claremont, N. H. 

Allen was born at Winhall, Vt., December lo, 1829. En- 
tered College and graduated from Surry, N. H. Taught High 
School at Hopkinton, Mass., from September, 1855, to Decem- 
ber, 1856, and studied law with L. H. Wakefield, of Hopkinton, 
from April i, 1856. In December, 1856, removed to Keene, 
N. H., and studied law with Wheeler & Faulkner and with F. 
F. Lane, and afterwards with Burke & Wait, at Newport, N. H. 
Taught school in Ohio six months from October, 1857, and was 
admitted to the bar in September, 1858, at Newport, N. H., 
where he resided till 1868, except while he was Paymaster in 
the Army, with rank of Major, from September, 1863, to 
December, 1865. Since March, 1868, he has resided at Clare- 
mont, N. H. Was Judge of Probate for Sullivan County from 
January, 1867, to June 1874. Register in Bankruptcy from 
June, 1867, to August, 1876. One of the Judges of the 
Supreme Court of New Hampshire since August 14, 1876. 
Married Ellen E. Joslin, of Surry, N. H., July 24, 1856, at 
Surry, who died August 27, 1873. Their daughter, Rosamond 
B., born in 1857, was married to Samuel Newton, a farmer, in 
Alstead, N. H., (and has two children). Henry W., born in 
1859, graduated in 1880 from Chandler Scientific Department 
of Dartmouth College, is Civil Engineer in Manchester, N. H. 
Bertha S., born in 1 861, is Instructress in a family in Boston. 
Velma G., born in 1864, ^^^ Mary B., born in 1866, are both at 



home. Alger B., born in 1 871, is at the High School, and John 
E., born in 1873, is in the Grammar School. Allen was married 
to Miss Sallie S. Sabine, of Claremont, N. H., October 10, 1874. 
He was at the Class Meeting in June, 1880. 



JOHN RICHARDS BAKER. 

Lawyer — Ipsivich, Mass. 

Baker was born April 16, 1835, at Ipswich, Mass. Taught 
in the High School at Beverly, Mass., from 1855 to i860. Read 
law 1860-62 at Ipswich, with Daniel E. Safford, Esq. Was 
admitted to the bar in 1862, and resided at Ipswich until 1876. 
Entered the United States service as Orderly Sergeant in 48th 
Mass. Vol. Infantry ; was with the Banks Expedition in Louisi- 
ana, and at the siege of Port Hudson during the spring and 
summer of 1863, and was discharged by expiration of service 
in September, 1863, having become Lieutenant. Was sick for 
nearly a year afterwards, rem^aining at home, and then opened 
an office in Boston. Was admitted to practice in Supreme 
Court of United States at Washington, D. C, in 1876, and 
from 1876 resided at Beverly, Mass., and practiced law in 
Boston. Held the responsible office of School Committee. 
For a few years has resided in Ipswich, Mass., practicing law, 
teaching French, Spanish and German. Was married February 
28, 1869, to Rebecca A. W. Hale, of Charlestown, Mass., and 
has one son, Stephen Hubert Baker, born January i, 1872. 



*J. H. Banfield, deceased. {See Memorial.) 



IRA NORTON BARNES, A. M. 

Pkysiciaji — Decatur, III. 

Barnes was born at Claremont, N. H., December 19, 1829. 
Taught the Academy at Chelsea, Vt., during the fall of 1855. 
Taught in Jackson, Mississippi, from November, 1855, to May, 
1 86 1, except while attending medical lectures at Dartmouth 



College the autumn of 1858, and at Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, during the session of 1859-60. During the sum- 
mer of 1 86 1 studied medicine with Professors Dixi Crosby and 
E. R. Peaslee, at Hanover, N. H. ; was at Jefferson Medical 
College the session of 186 1-2, and received the degree of M. D. 
there in March, 1862. In April, 1862, located at Decatur, 111. 
In March, 1863, was commissioned Surgeon of the ii6th Regi- 
ment Illinois Volunteers, and served at the battles of Vicks- 
burgh and Jackson, Miss., Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, and 
Knoxville, Tenn., Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, 
Atlanta, Fort McAllister and Savannah, Ga., and Columbia, 
S. C. In 1864 was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief of the 2d 
Division 15th Army Corps. After marching with Sherman 
to the sea, and thence through the Carolinas and Virginia, he 
was mustered out of service at close of war, near Washington, 
D. C, in June, 1865. He returned to Decatur, 111., where he 
still continues the practice of medicine. He received the 
degree of A. M. from Dartmouth in 1858. Married at Clare- 
mont, N. H., September 25, 1 861, to Diantha G. Sargent, of 
Ciaremont, who died May 10, 1879. He has a son born 
October 3, 1873, named Lynn Moore Barnes. The doctor 
enjoys excellent health and prosperity. 



FREDERICK BATES. 

General lusurarice Agent — Titusville, Pa. 

Bates was born at Randolph, Vt., November 26, 1830. En- 
tered College and graduated from Hartland, Vt. Taught at 
Hartland fall of 1855. December, 1855, went to Macon, Ga., 
and taught the Bibb County Academy one and a half years. 
Then was employed as book-keeper in the Marine Bank of 
Georgia, at Macon, till July, 1863. Left the South July 23, and 
reached Vermont in September, 1863. Went to Titusville, Pa., 
in October, 1863, where he became fire insurance agent, pro- 
ducer of petroleum and dealer in real estate. Was Mayor of 
Titusville two years — 1861 and 1862 — and has been one of 
the School Committee for many years. Represented Crawford 



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County in the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1873 and 1874. 
Married Caroline Sturtevant, of Hartland, Vt., August 18, 
1859. Carroll Lund was born at Macon, Ga., February 18, 
1861 ; graduated with high honors at Hamilton College, Clin- 
ton, N. Y., in 1883, and is now teaching at Rome, N. Y. Fred 
S., born at Titusville, September 17, 1866; now a Sophomore 
at Lehigh University, Pa. Harriet E., born at Titusville, 
October 23, 1868. Crayton H., born at Titusville, February 
27, 1877. Family connected with the Episcopal Church. Bates 
was at the Class Meeting, June, 1885. 



EDWARD RANDALL BENNER. 

Drug Business — Waldoboro\ Me. 

Benner was born in Waldoboro', Me., March 21, 1833. En- 
tered Waterville College in 185 1, and joined our Class in fall 
of 1854. Taught in Waldoboro', Me., 1855-7, and studied law 
with J. H. Kennedy, and was admitted to the bar in October, 
1856. Practiced law in Waldoboro' till 1859. Teacher at 
Marysville, Cal., 1859-63. Engaged in mining in Idaho 
1863-4. In drug business at Waldoboro', Me., since 1865. 
Married June 24, 1869, to Sarah C. Allen, of Waldoboro', and 
has three sons — born in 1870, 1873, and 1877. 



JOSEPH MORSE BICKFORD. 

Merchant — Port Lavaca^ Texas. 

Bickford was born at Littleton, N. H., February 24, 1827. 
Taught in Lisbon, N. H., from September, 1855, to December, 
1856. Taught in Calhoun County, Texas, from 1857 to 1868. 
Has been dealer in general merchandise in Lavaca, Calhoun 
County, Texas, since 1868. Taught young confederates during 
the war. Married February 25, 1867, Mary Hensley, of Lavaca, 
Texas, and has four children — three girls and one boy — 
between seventeen and ten years of age. He is an Episco- 
palian. Is merchandizing and stock raising. " Has made 
money and still makes the ends meet, and saves something 
besides, and enjoys life generally." 



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SAMUEL ROBERT BOND. 

Lnivyer — Washington^ D. C. 

Bond was born in Ipswich, Mass., Nov. 22, 1832. Took 
charge of an Academy in Paris, Harry County, Tenn., one year, 
then was Professor in Oddfellows Female College at Paris one 
year, and read law with Col. Isaac R. Hawkins. Summer of 
1857 went to St. Paul, Minn. — having previously been admitted 
to the bar — and practiced law till June, 1862. Was Corpora- 
tion Attorney for St. Paul one year. Was in partnership with 
Greenleaf Clark from i860 to March, 1863. In June, 1862, he 
started on an extended tour as Journalist of an expedition sent 
out by the Secretary of War, and arrived in New York in Janu- 
ary, 1863. Was in the Treasury Department, Washington, 
D. C , from February, 1863, two years; then engaged in the 
practice of law and prosecution of claims before the Executive 
Departments. In July, 1868, was elected Water Registrar of 
the city for two years ; then returned to the practice of law. 
Married November 7, 1864, Mary A. Hunt, daughter of Dr. 
Ebenezer Hunt, of Danversport, Mass. Has no children. Is 
now President of Dartmouth Alumni Association, of Washing- 
ton, D. C, and is successful in the practice of his profession. 
Address, 321, 4^ Street. 



JOSHUA METCALF CHAMERLAIN. 

Treasurer of Iowa College — Grinnell, loiva. 

Chamberlain was born in West Brookfield, Mass., November 
1 83 1. Was in Georgia two months; then at Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, where he graduated in July, 1858. Remained 
a resident graduate six months. February, 1859, commenced a 
six months' engagement in the Congregational Church at 
Dubuque. October i, 1859, became pastor of the Congrega- 
tional Church at Des Moines, Iowa ; ordained December 10, 
1859; installed December 14, i860; resigned in October, 1865. 
Was a Chaplain of the legislature of Iowa three successive ses- 
sions. Since 1861 has been Trustee of Iowa College. Ten 
weeks in 1863 with Sherman's army, employed by Christian 



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Commission. From October, 1863, to December, 1866, travel- 
ling for the American Missionary Association in Iowa, Illinois, 
Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michi- 
gan ; then four months Canvassing Agent for Iowa College. 
From December 1, 1867, pastor of the Congregational Church 
at Eddyville, Iowa, till October 13, 1886. Since then has been 
Treasurer and Financial Agent of Iowa College. He is also 
Editor of Congregational Iowa. Married November 20, 1867, 
Ella Fay, of Muscatine, Iowa, who died March 30, 1878. Mary, 
born October 28, 1868. Married July 20, 1881, Mrs. Eliza 
A. Dike. 

JOHN SPAULDING CHAMBERLINE. 

Produce Commission Merchant — Boston^ Mass. 

Chamberline was born in Alton, N. H., November 29, 1829. 
Studied law in Boston and St. Louis, 1857 to 1858; admitted 
to the bar in 1858. Resided in St. Louis from 1858 to 1861. 
Practiced law in Colorado from 1861 to 1863. Was in business 
in Iowa from 1863 to 1867. Since 1867 has been a Commission 
Merchant in Boston ; now at 5 North Market Street. Married 
Sarah B. Davis, of Gloucester, Mass., March 29, 1863. Is a 
Unitarian, and resides in Gloucester, Mass. John B., born in 
1868, and a daughter born in 1871. 



BENJAMIN CLARK. 

Lawyer — Morekead, Minn. 

Clark was born in Compton, N. H., June 11, 1828. Studied 
law in Laconia and Concord, N. H. Practiced law at Melrose, 
Minn., from 1857 to 1858. Afterwards at Plymouth and Sauk 
Rapids, Minn., and now is said to be at Morehead, Minn. 
Has a wife and children. He has made no report. 



GREENLEAF CLARK. 

Lawyer — St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Clark was born in Plaistow, N. H., August 23, 1835. The 
youngest member of the Class. Immediately after graduating, 



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commenced the study of law with Albert R. Hatch, Esq., 
Portsmouth, X. H., for one year. Entered Harvard Law 
School fall of 1856, and graduated in 1857. Received the 
degree of LL.B. ; was admitted to the Suffolk bar in June, 
1857, in Superior Court, Boston. In the fall of 1858 removed 
to St. Paul, where he has practiced law successfully since ; in 
partnership with S. R. Bond from i860 to 1863. Served one 
year as Judge of Supreme Court of Minnesota. Has been a 
member of the Board of Regents of the University of Minne- 
sota for about five years. Is a Presbyterian, and has never 
married. 



J. T. COBB. 

Editor — Salt Lake, Utah. 

Cobb was born in Beverly, Mass., December 15, 1833. En- 
tered our Class in the spring of 1854 from Amherst College, 
where he entered in 185 1. Set up as a bill broker in Boston in 
1855. Went West in November, 1856. Taught in Prescott, 
Wisconsin. Then went to Salt Lake, where he is editing a 
paper. A thorough Gentile, though connected with the Mor- 
mons. He has never married. 



JACOB DALPE. 

Teacher. 

Dalpe was born June i, 1829, at Chambly, Canada East. 
Taught at Mclndoes Falls, Vt., fall of 1855. Went to Read- 
ing, Pa., where he resided some years, and taught music. 
Went to Europe, I believe, and has not been heard from for 
some time. Was reported dead at one time. His wife and, I 
think, two children live at Reading, Pa. 



* S. S. Dearborn, deceased. iySee Memorial.^ 



NELSON DINGLEY, JR. 

Editor — JLezutston, Me. 

Dingley was born in Durham, Me., February 15, 1832. 
Joined our Class from Colby University in May, 1853. Stud- 
ied law with Morrill & Fessenden at Auburn, Me., and was 
admitted to the bar by Supreme Judicial Court of Maine in 
1856. In September, 1856, purchased one-half of the Lewiston 
Joui^nal, and took the editorial charge of that paper, and also 
the management of the secular department of the Maine 
Evangelist^ published by the proprietors of the Journal. In 
September, 1857, became sole proprietor of the Journal and the 
printing establishment connected therewith. In April, 1861, 
added a daily edition, both of which he has continued to pub- 
lish since. Since 1863 his younger brother has been associated 
with him (Nelson Dingley, Jr., & Co.). Resided in Auburn 
from 1855 to 1863, and was Representative to the Maine Legis- 
lature from there in 1862. Was elected Speaker of the House 
in 1863. Removed to Lewiston, where he has since resided, 
and was a Representative from there in 1864, and re-elected 
Speaker of the House. Representative again in 1865, and 
declined the Speakership. Representative again in 1867 and 
in 1873. Governor of Maine in 1874 and 1875 — two terms. 
Received degree of LL.D. from Bates College in 1874. Was 
elected Representative to Forty-seventh Congress in 1881, and 
re-elected twice since — just commencing his third term. 
Married June 11, 1857, Salome M'Kenny, of Auburn, Me. 
Henry M., born August 10, 1858, graduated at Worcester 
Technical Institute, and is a cotton manufacturer — recentl}'- of 
Harrisburg, Pa. — now of Lewiston, Me. Charles L. died in 
infancy. Edward N., born August 21, 1862, graduated at Yale 
in 1883, and from Columbian Law School, Washington, D. C, 
in 1885 ; will become a Journalist at Lewiston. Arthur How- 
ard, born July 15, 1867; in Lewiston High School, now expect- 
ing to enter Scientific School. Albert Grant, born December 
6, 1869, is fitting for College in High School at Lewiston. 
Only daughter, Edith, born December 16, 1871. Dingley 
was at Class Meeting in 1880. 



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WILLIAM DEXTER DOW. 

Real Estate Dealer — Wilmington, Del. 

Dow was born in Landsgrove, Vt., September 5, 1826. 
Taught a select public school in East Medway for six months 
Taught one term in Wilmington, Del. In September, 1856, 
began the study of law with D. M. Bates, Wilmington, Del., 
and was admitted to the bar in Superior Court at Newcastle, 
Del., November, 1859. January, i860, removed to St. Louis, 
Mo., and practiced law. In 1861 to Carlinville, 111., and in 
January, 1863, to Wilmington, Del., and became partner with 
his preceptor, D. M. Bates, Esq., which partnership continued 
till Mr. Bates became Chancellor of the State of Delaware. 
Dow removed with his recently acquired wife to a farm in 
Chester County, Pa. In two years sold his farm and removed 
to Lynchburg, Va., where he engaged in the real estate 
business. A few years ago he removed to Wilmington, Del., 
where he now resides 12 10 Delaware Avenue. Married Miss 
Childress, of Texas, who was born in Nashville, Tenn. Their 
first daughter lived fifteen months. Two daughters born since. 
He once held the office of President of the Board of Registra- 
tion for the Eighth District of the County of Campbell, Va. 



* E. G. Draper, deceased. (ySee Memorial^ 



GEORGE DUTTON. 

Teacher — Rutland, Vertnont. 

Dutton was born in Royalton, Vt., March 25, 1830. Taught 
in Academies in Randolph Centre and West Randolph, Vt., 
three years. For two long terms was Principal of a Grammar 
School in Sonth Danvers (now Peabody), Mass. His health 
failed so that he was obliged to give up teaching. Studied 
medicine with Prof. Perkins, of Castleton, Vt., attended a 
course of lectures at Burlington Vt., another at Hanover, N. 
H., and one at Washington, D. C, where he graduated in 1861. 
He published a mathematical and physiological argument 



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against the use of tobacco ; also a Hygienic Manual^ which 
contained eighty-four pages ; also "Love's Guide ; or The True 
Woman's Own Book" (lectures to ladies), seventy-two pages. 
Was Examining Surgeon in Rutland, Vt., while receiving volun- 
teers for the war. Superintendent of Schools two years in 
Rutland, Vt., and one year in Randolph, Vt. Lectured one 
year, with manikin and cabinet, on Physiological Hygiene in 
New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont. In 
1869 had charge of the Academy in West Randolph, Vt., and 
carried on in connection with it a Medical Institute. He is 
largely interested in Spiritualism and Reform, and wishes to be 
known as an Earnest Reformer. Practiced medicine in Boston 
and Springfield, Mass. Is now teaching a new philosophy — 
Ontology (Science of Being) — having for its object the shed- 
ding of light upon the subject of health and happiness. Married 
Jane E. Howard, of Randolph, Vt., November 25, 1856. Carrie 
A., born November 21, 1857, is teaching in a public school in 
Akron, Ohio. Arthur C, born May 12, 1864, is a book-keeper 
in Springfield, Mass. 



FRANKLIN EBENEZER FELLOWS. 
Clergyman — Norwich., Ct. 

Fellows was born in Weathersfield, Vt., February 23, 1827. 
United with the East Congregational Church in 1841. Joined 
our Class in March, 1854. Went to Andover Theological 
Seminary, where he graduated in September, 1858. Ordained 
and installed Pastor of the Congregational Church in Kenne- 
bunk. Me.; continued from 1858 to 1865. Pastor in Bridgton, 
Me., 1866 to 1868. Sutton, Mass., 1869 to 1870. Acting Pas- 
tor, Griswold, Ct., 1871 to 1875, and Bozrah, Ct., from 1875 to 
1880. Since then has resided at Norwich, Ct. Was IMember 
of Board of Education and Visitor while in Griswold and Boz- 
rah. Married at LeRoy, N. Y., November, 26, 1853, to Jane 
E. Stiles, of Marshall, Mich. Frank, born early in 1855, is in 
Ottawa, Kansas. Florence, born in 1856, is teaching in Nor- 
wich, Ct. William A., born in 1858, is in business in Ansonia, 



Ct. ; is married (and has one son three years old). Charles A., 
born in i860, is in Goldthwait's carpet store, Boston. George 
O., born in 1862, is in Yale College, where he received last 
June the first Winthrop prize for knowledge of Greek and 
Latin poets. A. Lincoln, born in 1864, is also in Junior class 
at Yale. Hattie A., born in 1867, keeping books at 79 Bedford 
Street, Boston. (Florence, George, Lincoln and Hattie took 
the classical course in the Academy at Norwich, with general 
average varying between 97 and 985^, and could all have 
entered Yale or Harvard without conditions.) Jennie, born in 
1873, is at home. All the eight are promising children, physi- 
cally and intellectually. 



WALBRIDGE ABNER FIELD. 

Lawyer — Boston. 

Field was born in North Springfield, Vt., April 26, 1833. 
Was Tutor in Dartmouth College from 1855 to 1857. Studied 
law with Harvey Jewell, Esq., Boston, 1857 to 1859. Tutor of 
Mathematics in Dartmouth College from February to July, 
1859. From September, 1859 to January, i860, in Harvard 
Law School ; then with Harvey Jewell, and admitted to the 
bar in Boston in May, i860. In practice of law with Harvey 
Jewell five years from July i, i860, when he was appointed 
Assistant United States Attorney for Massachusetts for nearly 
four years, the firm then being Jewell, Gaston & Field. May 
I, 1869, was appointed Assistant Attorney General of the 
United States, and removed to Washington, D. C, dissolving 
connection with his law partners. In 1870 returned to Boston 
as before. Member of the School Committee of Boston in 
1863 and 1864. Member of the Common Council of Boston 
in 1865, '66, '6j. In 1877 was elected Representative to Con- 
gress from the Third District, Mass., but lost it. Was re-elected 
Representative to Forty-sixth Congress in 1878, and served 
until February, 1881, when he was appointed a Justice of the 
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, which office he still 
holds. Married October 4, 1869, Eliza Ellen McLoon, of Rock- 



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land, Me., who died March 8, 1877. A daughter was born Janu- 
ary I, 1871 ; another February 6, 1873. Was married October 
31, 1882 to Frances Eaton Farwell, of Rockland, Me. 



E. G. Greenough, deceased. {See Memorial.) 



SILAS HARDY. 

Laivyer — Keene, JV. H. 

Hardy was born in Nelson, N. H., April 3, 1827. He was 
Principal of Foxcroft Academy, Foxcroft, Me., for one year. 
In September, 1856, he entered the law office of Hon. Levi 
Chamberlain, at Keene, N. H., (which office he now occupies). 
Here he continued two years, teaching in the meantime one 
term at Winchendon, Mass. For a few weeks in August and 
September, 1858, he was in the office of M. C. McLure, Esq., 
Claremont, N. H., and was admitted to the bar in September, 

1858. Has since practiced law in Keene, N. H. In March, 

1859, was appointed Register of Probate for Cheshire County, 
which continued for five years, till he was appointed Judge of 
Probate for said county, and continued to serve until, by change 
of State administration, he was excused July i, 1874. Was 
City Solicitor for Keene in 1877 and 1878. He was engrossing 
clerk in New Hampshire Legislature in i860 and 1861, and 
member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention 
which met in December, 1876. He is also interested in agri- 
culture, and has been much prospered in business. Was 
married December 31, 1863, to Josephine M. Kingsley, of 
Winchester, N. H., who died June 19, 1871. His son, Ashley 
Kingsley, was born April 6, 1871 ; has had no teacher but his 
father ; is now studying Latin. 



SIDNEY SMITH HARRIS. 

Laivyer — 765 Broadway, Nevj Tork. 

Harris was born at East Plainfield, N. H., February 5, 1832, 
Studied law with the late Chancellor Walworth, and attended 



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the Albany Law School, where he graduated, and was all 
to the bar, March ii, 1856. Practiced law in Kingston, N. Y., 
from October, 1856, to March 4, 1858, and since that time in 
New York city. Was appointed in 1884, by the Supreme 
Court, President of the important Board of Commissioners to 
determine whether the Broadway railroad should be built. Was 
married April 20, 1864, to Miriam D. Cole, of Dawson, Long 
Island, author of "Rutledge," etc. A son was born February 
15, 1866, who is now a Junior in Columbia College, and a 
daughter, born February 11, 1868. 



* N. S. Haseltine, deceased. {See Memorial^ 



R. Howe, deceased. {See Memorial^ 



EPHRAIM ORCUTT JAMESON. 

Clergy7na?2 — Mtllts, Mass. 

Jameson was born in Dunbarton, N. H., January 23, 1832. 
He went to Andover Theological Seminary ; was licensed to 
preach in January, 1858, and graduated August 5, 1858. Re- 
sided in Concord, N. H., from September 20, 1858, to August, 
1859. Preached in Concord, N. H., Randolph and Concord, 
Mass. Was ordained and installed over the East Congrega- 
tional Church in Concord, N. H., March i, i860, having 
preached there from August, 1859. ^^.s dismissed November 
I, 1865, and installed over the Union Evangelical Church of 
Amesbury and Salisbury, Mass., November 9, 1865. This rela- 
tion continued six years, and he became Pastor at East Med- 
way, Mass., November 15, 1871. He was Superintendent of 
Schools in Concord, N. H., and Medway, Mass. Preached a 
historical discourse on the One Hundred and Sixty-Second 
Anniversary of the First Church in Medway, October i, 1876, 
and also Sketch of the Sabbath School (Sixtieth Anniversary), 
which were published. PubHshed "The History of Medway, 



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Mass.," in 1883, and ''The Cogswells in America" (700 pp.) in 
1884. Was married September 20, 1858, to Mary Joanna Cogs- 
well, eldest daughter of Rev. William Cogswell, of Gilmanton, 
N. H. Arthur Orcutt, born Nov. 25, 1859, graduated at Har- 
vard College in 1881, died September 30, 1881, after having 
received the appointment of Teacher of Classics and Mathe- 
matics in the Arnold School, New York city. Catharine 
Strong, born September 15, 1861, graduated at Smith's College 
in 1884, is Teacher of Latin and Mathematics in High School, 
Bradford, Pa. Caroline Cogswell, born February 7, 1866, is a 
Sophomore in Smith's College. Mary, born January 10, 1868. 
Jameson was at Class Meting, June, 1880. East Medway is 
Millis since February, 1885. 



HENRY MARTYN KIMBALL. 

Editor — Carltnville, III. 

Kimball was born in Plainfield, Mass., February 12, 1833. 
Taught about six months a High School in Byron, 111. Lived 
at Rockford and Alton III, and at Lawrence, Kansas, a few 
months each, in 1856. Since September, 1856, has resided in 
Carlinville, 111. Was appointed Postmaster by A. Lincoln in 
1861, and <3f/j-appointed by a Johnson in 1866; and was again 
Postmaster five years under U. S. Grant. Has been Editor of 
the Carlinville Democrat since January, 1857. Was married 
March i, i860, to Fanny M. Palmer, of Troy, 111. Has five 
children living. 



JOHN RUSSELL KIMBALL. 

Kimball was born in Marblehead, Mass., July 6, 1831. Stud- 
ied law with Mr. Thomas, in Boston, 1855-6. Lived at 
Dubuque, Iowa, from 1856 to 1857. Was admitted to the 
bar in 1857. Resided at Auburndale, Mass., from 1857 to 
1 87 1. Was married October 23, 1856, to Mary K. Hooper, of 
Manchester, Mass. Alice H. was born March 31, 1859, ^^^^ 
died in March, 188 1. Frank R., born June 30, 1861, is a book- 



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keeper in Boston. Edith T., born August 25, 1866. Kimball 
went to New York city in 1871, and is probably there yet. 
Mrs. K. (with her children) lives at Auburndale, Mass. 



WILLIAM DANIEL KNAPP. 

Lawyer — Great Falls, N. H. 

Knapp was born in Parsonsfield, Me., October 17, 1830. 
Taught in Lebanon Academy, West Lebanon, Me., until 
November, 1856; then read law with Wells and Eastman at 
Great Falls Village, Somersworth, N. H. Was admitted to the 
bar in York County, Me., September 22, 1858, and has since 
been in the practice of law at Great Falls. Was School Com- 
mittee two years from July, i860, and Secretary of the New 
Hampshire Board of Education from July, 1861 for one year. 
Treasurer of the town of Somersworth and one of the Selectmen 
ten years from March, i860. Representative in the New Hamp- 
shire Legislature in 1871 and 1872. Justice of the Police Court 
in Somersworth since August, 1869; is also Treasurer of that 
town, and for the last year, clerk of the First Congregational 
Church of Great Falls. Was married November 29, 1866, to 
Susan Hale Hussey, of Barrington, N. H. Has no children. 
Was at Class Meeting, June, 1880. 



WILLIAM SPENCER LADD. 

Lavjyer — Lancaster ^ N. H. 

Ladd was born in Dalton, N. H., September 5, 1830. 
Taught school in Danvers and South Danvers about a year. 
Then read law with Hon. Alfred A. Abbott in Salem, Mass., 
until the spring of 1858, and then entered the office of Burns 
& Fletcher, where he remained until the May term of Court, 
1859, when he was admitted to the bar. Practiced law in Cole- 
brook, N. H., from June, 1859, ^o September, 1867. Then 
removed to Lancaster, N. H., and became partner with Ossian 
Ray. October, 1870, was appointed Associate Justice of Su- 
perior Court, and in August, 1874, ^^^ of the Justices of the 



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Supreme Court of New Hampshire, which continued to August, 
1876. Since then has practiced law in Lancaster, with a large 
business in New Hampshire and Vermont. Was Superintend- 
ing School Committee of Colebrook from 1859 to 1862. Was 
married July 5, i860, to Mira Barnes Fletcher, daughter of 
Hiram A. Fletcher, Esq., a distinguished lawyer of Lancaster. 
Fletcher, born December 21, 1862, graduated at Dartmouth Col- 
lege, 1884; is studying law in Erie, Pa. William Palmer, born 
May 13, 1870. Ladd was at Class Meeting in June, 1880. 



C. C. Lund, deceased. {See Memorial.) 



* S. S. Morrill, deceased. {See Memorial.) 



CHAUNCY NYE. 

Lawyer — Peoria^ Illinois. 

Nye entered College and graduated from Berlin, Vt. Went 
West and taught school in Ohio. Was Superintendent of 
Schools and Teacher at the same place in Ohio. Taught for 
some years in Peoria, 111. ; read law there, and for several years 
has been in successful practice of the law there. 



DANIEL DANA PATTEN. 

Fort Griffin^ Texas. 

Patten was born in Candia, N. H., April 25, 1829. Taught 
the Academy in Chester, N. H., from 1855 to 1857 ; in Friends 
College, Providence, R. I., from 1857 to 1859. Read law with 
C. T. & T. H. Russell in Boston in 1859-60, and was admitted 
to the bar in December, i860, and practiced law in Boston till 
1867. Taught in Stoneham, Mass., iZG'j-^Z, and in Winches- 
ter, Mass., 1868 to 1873. In Portland, Me., from 1873 to 1877. 
(In Stoneham, Winchester and Portland, Principal of the High 
Schools). From 1877 to 1883 Principal of a private school. 



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Went to Texas, chiefly for his health, and is in business at Fort 
Griffin. Was married September 17, 1865, to Miss Louise 
Pickett, of Boston, Mass. Has no children living. 



HENRY WHIPPLE PERKINS. 

Lavjye r — Ch icago , ///. 

Perkins was born in Springfield, Vt., June 2, 1834. Taught 
in Frankfort, Ohio. In 1856 removed to Muscatine, Iowa, and 
studied law with Richman & Bro. till 1858. Was admitted 
to the bar in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1858. Practiced law in 
Wapello, Iowa, from 1858 to i860, in Muscatine i860 to 1866, 
and was Judge of County Court from 1864 to 1866. In Daven- 
port, Iowa, \'^6y-6'^, Topeka, Kansas, 1869-70, and in Chicago, 
111., since 1872. Was married November 7, 1861, to Bina S. 
Trimble, of Wapello, Iowa. Has no children living, having 
buried three. Is prospering, and his present address is 152 
Dearborn Street. He is a High Church Episcopalian. 



ALPHEUS JUSTUS PIKE. 

Clergyman — Daxvson^ Dakota. 

Pike was born at Topsfield, Mass., March 7, 1828. Went to 
Andover Theological Seminary, but left within a year on 
account of ill-health. Taught in Topsfield fall of 1856 and 
winter of 1856-7. Was licensed to preach in April, 1857. 
Preached at Pomfret, Vt., six months, and in various places till 
June, 1858, when he went to the Theological Seminary, East 
Windsor, Ct. In September, 1858, went to Marlboro', Ct., 
where he was ordained and installed Pastor March 9, 1859, and 
continued till March. 1867, when he was dismissed on account 
of failing health. Travelled for eight months in the New 
England and Middle States and British Provinces. From No- 
vember, 1867, acted as Agent for the American Missionary Asso- 
ciation in the State of New York until June, 1868. In Septem- 
ber, 1868, became Acting Pastor of the Congregational Church 
at Sauk Centre, Minn. Closed his pastoral labors in September, 



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I %jj, on account of loss of health, and devoted himself to farming. 
In June, 1880, went to England, and was engaged with Rev. A. P. 
Miller in raising funds for mission work in Africa, speaking and 
collecting in many of the prominent churches in the north and 
centre of England. Returned to America in 1881. Supplied 
the pulpit in Norris, Minn., two months. In November, 1881, 
became Pastor of the Congregational Church in Mandan, Dak., 
until September, 1883, when he removed to Dawson, Dak., 
where he preaches as a missionary. Was married October 3, 
i860, to Eliza B. Perkins, of Topsfield, Mass. Flora E., born 
November 21, 1861, was married February, 1885, to W. A. 
Gates, who practices law in Sauk Rapids, Mich. Norman 
Bradstreet, born June 10, 1864, is a member of the Senior 
Class at Dartmouth. Minnie Esther, born July 27, 1872. 



* John F. Porter, deceased. {See Memorial.^ 



DAVID QUIGG. 

Lawyer — Chicago, III. 

Quigg was born in Litchfield, N. H., December 17, 1834. 
Studied law with Swett and Orme in Bloomington, 111., and 
was admitted to the bar there in the fall of 1857. Practiced 
law in Chicago, 111., from May, 1858, to January, 1861. Was at 
Bloomington, 111., for six months, and in July, 1861, entered the 
army as Second Lieutenant in 4th Regt. 111. Vol. Cavalry, and 
when he left the army in August, 1865, he was Lieut. Col. 14th 
Regt. 111. Cavalry. He was married April, 7, 1865, to Francena 
Pike, of Bloomington, 111, Has a daughter born May 21, 1869. 
Since August, 1865, has resided in Chicago. Present address, 
corner Randolph and Dearborn Streets ; and continues to be 
prospered and honored. 

* Chandler Richards, deceased. {See Memorial.^ 



F. M. Robinson, deceased. {See Memorial.) 



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WILLIAM KIMBALL ROWELL. 

Notary Public — Oakland^ Cal. 

Rowell was born in Concord, N. H., November 9, 1829. 
Was Principal of the Academy in Hopkinton, N. H., from 
1855 to the spring of 1857, when he became Principal of 
Blanchard Academy, Pembroke, N. H. Married Mary A. 
Flint, of Campton, N. H., November 29, 1855, who died of con- 
sumption June 25, 1857, ^t. 22. Rowell's health failing, he 
gave up teaching and went to California in May, 1858. His 
health improved, and he became Teacher of Languages and 
Mathematics in the Oakland College School, which became the 
College of California, and subsequently the University of the 
State of California. After two years he resigned, and was 
married in Chester, N. H., April 25, i860, to Helen Maria 
Tenney. Then was Principal of the Grammar School at Peta- 
luma, Cal., for over two years, and from 1862, for two years and 
a half, Principal of the Grammar School at Brooklyn, near Oak- 
land, Cal. ; then (1864) about a year Assistaitt in the Latin 
High School in San Francisco, when he became Principal^ and 
resigned in 1867. Spent the summer of 1867 in New Hamp- 
shire, and then became dealer in real estate in Oakland, where 
he was School Trustee and School Director for five years. But 
his occupation of reclaiming overflowed lands on the San 
Joaquin River, though profitable, may have been the cause of 
paralysis, v/hich almost disabled him some years later ; and for 
nearly seven years he has been confined to a wheel chair, hav- 
ing entirely lost the use of his lower limbs. He is now a 
Notary Public, having more than his share of that business 
(including there all kinds of legal papers affecting real estate), 
is at his office every business day from 8.30 a. m. to 5.30 p. m., 
rain or shine — going more than one-fourth of a mile back and 
forth alone in his chair — attends church regularly, and has an 
adult Bible Class in Sabbath-school. '* I eat and sleep well, 
and enjoy life better than the average of men. Although my 
sorrows have been many, my joys have been more." He has 
lost, by death, four of his children, including three sons, — the 
last one, William T., born 1862, died January 22, 1883, a young 



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man of unusual promise, beloved and respected by all who 
knew him. He has two daughters, — Ellen F., born in 1866, 
and Mabel Chester, born in 1877, — and has a delightful home 
with them and their mother. 



EDWARD BURR SMITH SANBORN. 

Lawyer — Frankli?t Falls, N. H. 

Sanborn was born in Canterbury, N. H., August 11, 1833. 
Read law with Nesmith & Pike and Pike & Barnard, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1857. Practiced law in Henniker, 
N. H., from November, 1857, to May, 1863 ; then in Bradford, 
N. H., with M. W. Tappan, until January, 1868. Since then 
has resided in Franklin in partnership with Daniel Barnard 
(Barnard & Sanborn) ; now in partnership with Mr. Hardy 
(Sanborn & Hardy). Has represented Franklin in the New 
Hampshire Legislature, and is now one of the Railroad Com- 
missioners of New Hampshire. Was married August i, 1855, 
to Caroline A. Emory, of Meredith, N. H., who died June 19, 
1864, leaving one daughter, Kate Emory, born June 24, i860, 
who has become quite distinguished in the literary world. San- 
born was married March 18, 1869, to Ellen M. Hazelton, of 
Hebron, N. H. 



EDWARD PAYSON SCALES. 

Physician — Neivton^ Mass. 

Scales was born at Henniker, N. H. (Sunday, 5 p. m.), July 
17, 1 83 1. Was Associate Principal of a Boys' Boarding School 
at Prattsville, N. Y., from October, 1855, to April, 1856. Then 
commenced the study of medicine at Woburn with his brother, 
T. S. Scales, A. M., M. D. Attended medical lectures (allopathic) 
at Dartmouth College in the fall of 1857, and taught the Dis- 
trict School at Hanover, N. H., the winter of 1857-8. Attended 
lectures the winter of 1858-9 at Cleveland, Ohio, where he 
received the degree of M. D. March 5, 1859, from the Cleveland 
Homoeopathic Medical College. Practiced medicine successfully 



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at South Dedham (now Norwood), Mass., from May 8, 1859, to 
April, 1 861 ; in Winchester, Mass., from April, 1861, to April, 
1863. Since then he has had a very satisfactory and remuner- 
ative practice in Newton, Mass. He is devoted to his profes- 
sion, and has persistently avoided all civil and military offices. 
Was married May 4, 1859, ^^ H. Elizabeth Fowle, daughter of 
Edward Fowle, of Woburn, Mass. May B. was born in 1864. 
George C, born in 1866, is on his second year in the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology. Nellie E., born in 1868, and 
William E., born in 1869, are in the second and third classes, 
respectively, in the High School. Charles H., born December 
28, 1872, died January 22, 1874. Luther D., born in 1874, and 
Carrie L., born in 1876. Scales was at the Class Meeting in 
1880, at Commencement in 1883, and at Class Meeting in 1885. 



ROBERT SWAN SOUTHGATE. 

Real Estate and Loa?i Broker — Kimball, Dakota. 

Southgate was born in Woodstock, Vt., August 7, 1834. 
Entered College from Ipswich, Mass., and was with the Class 
till November, 1853. Was Entry Clerk and Assistant Book- 
keeper with Nash, Callender & Co., and Henry Callender & 
Co., wholesale grocers, in Boston, from March, 1854, to Sep- 
tember, 1857. Then until March, 1861, Book-keeper with B. 
F. Brown & Co., wholesale druggists, Boston. Then at home, 
in Ipswich, Mass., for a year. From March, 1862, to Tune, 
1863, was Clerk in office of Windsor County Mutual Fire Insur- 
ance Company, at Woodstock, Vt., and from May 3, 1863, to 
April, 1884, when the Company was given up, was Secretary 
and Treasurer of said Company. Was fancy farmer in his 
garden in the summer, and since November, 1884, has been 
with Mark Ward, real estate and loan broker, Kimball, Brule 
County, Dakota. He was Register of Probate in District of 
Hartford, Vt., from December, 1869, to December, 1876, and a 
working member of the Congregational Church at Woodstock, 
where his family still are. Was married December 13, 1S65, 
to Caroline L. Anderson, of Woodstock, Vt. Has a son, Ben- 



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jamin, born in 1866, fitting for College, two daughters, born in 
1869 and in 1874, and one younger died. Southgate having 
received the degree of A. B. from Dartmouth College in 1874, 
is regularly included in the Class. Was at Class Meeting in 
1880. 



* Daniel Stearns, deceased. {See Memorial.) 



* J. E. Taylor, deceased. {See Memorial.) 



C. A. Tenney, deceased. {See Memorial.) 



EDWIN ALONZO THOMAS. 

Woodeji Ware Manufacturer — Toledo^ Ohio. 

Thomas was born in Claremont, N. H., June 4, 1832. Went 
to Toledo, Ohio, and was Principal of the High School until 
May, 1856. Then took charge of a Select School in Jackson, 
Miss., until 1859. ^^.s admitted to the bar September 1859, ^^ 
Newport, N. H. Went to Raymond, Hines County, Miss., and 
had charge of a school until March, 1861, when he went to 
Toledo, Ohio, and has been engaged in manufacturing wooden 
ware there ever since with reasonable success. Has never 
married. 



EDWARD AUGUSTUS UPTON. 

Lawyer — Wakefield, Mass. 

Upton was born in Danvers (now Peabody), Mass., Wednes- 
day, September 23, 1829. Read law with Stephen G. Nash and 
Joshua P. Converse from March, 1856, to March, 1858, and has 
practiced law in Wakefield and Boston since. He has fully 
enjoyed the honors of various offices, such as Field Driver, 
School Committee (for many years now). Tax Collector, Justice 
of the Peace, Trial Justice, etc., showing the esteem in which 



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he is held by his townsmen. Was married June ii, 1861, to 
Susan M. Simpson, of Winslow, Me., who died. Married, De- 
cember 4, 1873, to Clarinda Grigg, of Pemberton, N. J. Upton 
was at the Class Meeting in 1880. He has an office in Boston. 



JOHN KING VALENTINE. 

Lawyer — Pkiladelfhia . 

Valentine was born in Chester County, Pa., July 18, 1827. 
He entered the law department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, where he graduated in 1857, receiving the degree of 
LL.B. Was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, September 9, 
1857, and has since resided in Philadelphia and practiced law. 
Since November 5, 1875, has been United States Attorney for 
that district, and has always been a consistent member of the 
Society of Friends. Was married September 24, 1865, to Vir- 
ginia Reed, of New Orleans, La. John Reed Valentine was 
born July 22, 1869. 

ROBERT WALLACE. 

Fa rmer — Weston , Vi. 

Wallace, I think, was born in Raymond, N. H. Taught in 
Connecticut one year — 1855-6. Went West in 1856 ; had the 
intermittent fever, and hastened home in January, 1857. Tried 
various ways to earn a livelihood, and settled in Weston, Vt., 
as a farmer, where he has been Selectman. Has a family, but 
has not reported himself to the Secretary. 



Jjlemerial. 



DECEASED. 



Tenney, Chart ,f,s A. 


J 




August II, 


1856, 


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Draper, Edw'd G., 


• 




— 


1858, 


24 


Haseltine, N. S., 






January 22, 


i860, 


3i 


Howe, RicheraJ^d, 






March 8, 


1863, 


29 


Dearborn, S. S., 






January 8, 


1867, . 


36 


Stearns, Daniel, 






January 31, 


1868, 


36 


Taylor, J. E., . 






June 20, 


1868, 


37 


Greenough, E. G., 






October 30, 


1875, 


52 


Morrill, S. S., 






May 2, 


1878, . 


46 


Lund, C. C., . 




December 4, 


1880, 


48 


Richards, C., . 




November 17, 


1882, 


53 


Banfield, J. H., 




September 20, 


1883, 


51 


Robinson, F. M., 




March 25, 


1885, . . 


56 


Porter, J. F., . 






September 6, 


1885, 


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Who next ? It matters not, if he is ready. 



MEMORIALS 



^J«<o« 

JOSEPH HENRY BANFIELD. 

Was born in Dover, N. H., May 22, 1832. Christian parents 
cared for him, and the public schools of that town gave him the 
opportunities for acquiring the elements of an education. He 
attended the Franklin Academy, in Dover, and afterwards, at 
Gilmanton Academy, completed his fit for college. Nothing 
out of the ordinary course had marked his experience when, in 
185 1, he entered Dartmouth. He had been neither pinched by 
poverty, nor demoralized by affluence. During his college 
course we recall no remarkable incident that gave any unusual 
test of his character. A genial companion, faithful in the ob- 
servance of duties, he had not the prominence which genius 
gives, nor the superiority that ambition to excel in recitation 
prompts one to secure, — at the expense of the closest applica- 
tion to class studies. He was a reader and a thinker, a diligent 
student, in the broader sense of the term. Not seeking the 
highest honors, he always maintained a respectable rank, while 
his knowledge of books and affairs entitled him to a higher 
place than the marking system indicated. On questions of the 
day he was well informed and had decided opinions. No stu- 
dent had in a greater degree the respect and esteem of his class- 
mates. He was signally free from the contests and jealousies 
of college life, — pleasant greetings and kind words were the 
weapons of his warfare, — and, without seeking, he obtained a 
large place in the best affections of his associates. His unself- 
ish spirit was an olive branch amid the controversies of others. 
By it he disarmed men of their asperities ; like oil upon dis- 
turbed waters, his gentleness, extending its influence all around 
him, wrought peace. 

In the assignment of parts for commencement the faculty 
selected for him, as the subject of an oration, "Samuel Adams 



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before the Governor and Council of Massachusetts." His 
health prevented him from delivering what he had carefully 
written, as the result of diligent research in the annals of Bos- 
ton for the obscure history of "the man of the town meeting," 
the leading patriot of New England in the forming period of 
the Revolution. After graduating he turned his attention to 
business, having decided not to study a profession. He found 
employment in Boston as a hemp and jute broker; afterwards 
in the firm of Banfield, Forristall & Co., fancy goods jobbers. 
In the interest of this firm he went to St. John, New Brunswick, 
to look after a branch store in that place. Thus, during five or 
six years in mercantile pursuits, he was making such efforts as 
were in his power, in common with the other members of the 
class, to obtain a place among the active men of the day. The 
course of a successful business man was open to him, when an 
event occurred — an accident befel him — which brought a sud- 
den close to his career of activity and turned the whole course 
of his life from the line of achievement to the path of patient 
endurance. While in St. John, a nail, driven against a concealed 
knot, flew back and struck one of his eyes a severe blow. The 
eye became inflamed and painful, but he kept at work, neglect- 
ing remedies and most needful rest. Gradually the trouble grew 
worse and developed into amaurosis of the optic nerve. He was 
obliged to give up his good business prospects, and in 1861 he 
returned home to live with his parents, first at Dover, then at 
Hampton, and finally at Portsmouth. His other eye became 
diseased, and gradually failing eyesight gave sure token of ap- 
proaching blindness. Soon he left off reading and writing ; for 
a time he could see to walk about alone ; then he needed some 
one to guide his way ; afterwards he gave up walking out, be- 
cause both eyes and limbs failed him. His great disappoint- 
ment, the change from active business to the dull, aimless, soli- 
tary life of an invalid, physical pain and discouragement of 
heart, together with the sympathy between the eyes and the 
brain, gradually undermined his health and shattered his ner- 
vous system. Emaciated, feeble, blind, — with nerves unstrung, 
— he lived on through years of pain and suffering, without hope 



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of recovery, without expectation of relief — in the world, but 
not of it, — only hearing the discordant notes of human indus- 
try, and waiting for the summons to another life. In the fore- 
noon of September 17, 1883, as he was resting upon a lounge 
and talking to his mother, suddenly he became unconscious by 
an apoplectic stroke and so remained until his death, on the eve- 
ning of September 20th. 

Thus came the end ; not unexpected, not undesired. His 
remains lie in the family lot in the cemetery at Dover. His de- 
voted mother, who was his best friend, companion, and support 
during the long period of his sad and painful experience, still 
survives and keeps green his memory in the home. Throughout 
his whole life he was the same conscientious, upright, temper- 
ate, modest, straightforward, good fellow that he was in college. 
He was correct in all his habits, quietly affectionate, fond of 
congenial, educated company, and retained to the last a warm 
attachment for his classmates. He lived much in the past and 
frequently talked over with his mother the incidents of his col- 
lege life. He never lost interest in Dartmouth, and frequently 
talked of visiting it, with his mother to see for him and tell him 
of both new and old ; but this earnest desire was never realized. 
Sometimes, contrasting his hard lot with the good luck of some 
of his classmates, he almost envied their success ; but his gen- 
erous spirit always conquered, and, forgetting self, he found 
cause for rejoicing at every step taken in advance by them and 
every new honor conferred upon them. In politics he was 
always a Republican and always zealous in the maintenance of 
his opinions. He was not a member of any church, but in his 
later years the Christian faith and hope were by him publicly 
acknowledged and clearly exemplified in the patience, fortitude, 
and joy with which he endured his weight of pain and disap- 
pointment. In turning and overturning, in the activities of 
life, in making history, Banfield's place was not a large one; but 
in bearing his burden, in doing the work that was given him to 
do, in the faithful and honorable use of his opportunities, in 
his patient endurance to the end, he exhibited the highest quali- 
ties of the human heart, chastened by experience, purified by 



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suffering, glorified by faith, hope, and love. His acquirements 
were not all in vain, his forces were not merely reserves, but on 
his battle-field he fought a good fight, and died a conqueror, a 
Christian hero. 

Classmates, the roll of our departed lengthens, year by year. 
Tenney, Draper, Haseltine, Howe, Dearborn, Stearns, Taylor, 
Greenough, Morrill, Lund, Richards, Banfield, Robinson, Porter, 
— fourteen names in thirty years, — marked by the ominous star. 
As we read the list and recall the men, the doctrine of the sur- 
vival of the fittest finds no room in our philosophy. By cher- 
ishing their memories and cultivating the virtues which shone 
in their lives, as, one by one, star after star shall mark our 
names, may we also have attained to a fitness for that inevitable 
change from the here to the hereafter. 

William D. Knapp. 



SYLVANUS SANBORN DEARBORN. 

Was born in Northfield, N. H., September 15, 1830. After 
graduation read law at Sanbornton Bridge, and afterwards with 
George W. Stipp, at Princeton, 111., and was admitted to the 
bar in the summer of 1858. Practiced law at Northfield, N. H., 
for two or three years. Was married to Mary E. Kief, of New 
York City, April 18, 1861. He entered the Union Theological 
Seminary at New York, and remained there a year or more, 
when he changed his church relations because of a change of 
sentiment respecting church polity and the original constitu- 
tion of the Christian church, and in 1862 joined the Middle 
Class of the General Theological Seminary (Episcopal), of New 
York ; and while here, he taught private pupils to obtain the 
means of support in his studies, and was assisted in getting 
pupils by influential friends, whose acquaintance he had made. 
After graduating from the seminary he taught in New York 
City a short time, and removed in October, 1864, to Clermont, 
N. Y., where he was ordained Priest, December 18, 1864, where 
he remained Rector till March, 1866, when he returned to New 
York City, and taught private pupils ; but his health failing, 
he sailed September 6, 1866, for Europe, hoping that the voy- 



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age and foreign travel would restore him. From England 
he went to Paris, where he broke down with fatigue, and as 
soon as he could he left for home, arriving in New York De- 
cember 13, 1866, faihng in consumption. He sent for Class- 
mate Morrill, who arrived in New York December 26, whose 
words I quote : " I found him quite low, but comfortable. He 
continued to decline. I was with him about a week, when I 
bid him farewell till we meet in the better land. He died Janu- 
ary 8, 1867, passing quietly away, with his heart intent on his 
treasures in heaven, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. 
He was at the time keeping house in a good tenement, in com- 
fortable style, but left no property and no children." Morrill 
wrote further, that " Dearborn took great interest in literary 
pursuits, had spent considerable time in studying the French 
literature, and at his death was intending soon to publish a col- 
lection of choice things translated from the French, which he 
had collected in his extensive reading in that language. He 
had a more general acquaintance with books than is often found 
even among educated men. Excessive reading was his weak- 
ness; its attendant confinement to close rooms and lack of suffi- 
cient physical exercise, hastened his death, I doubt not." 



EDWARD GARRISON DRAPER. 



After graduation studied law in Baltimore, Md. In Septem- 
ber, 1857, went to Boston and studied with Mayo & Story. 
Was married, and in November, 1857, went to Congo, Liberia, 
as Professor in a college, and died there in 1858, aged 24 years. 



ELBRIDGE GERRY GREENOUGH. 

Was born in Boscawen, N. H, April i, 1823. Fitted for 
college at Atkinson Academy, under Mr. William E. Todd, 
A. M., and entered our Class at Commencement of Sophomore 
year. He taught in the grammar schools of Haverhill, Mass., 
winters, before graduation. He was married November 29, 
1855, at Hampstead, N. H., to Emily Jane Harris, of Haver. 



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hill, Mass., and resided at his father's in Atkinson, N. H., after 
graduation, till September, 1856, when he removed to Haver- 
hill, Mass., where he resided till his death. He had a farm of 
ten acres, and was registered in the Directory as a farmer, but 
worked for the shoe manufacturers a large part of the time as 
book-keeper. He served as Overseer of the Poor, and received 
an appointment as Justice of the Peace. He was exempt from 
military duty, having for years been Captain in the State mili- 
tia, and resigned before the commencement of the war of the 
Union. Pie was baptized October 28, 1875, and died October 
30, 1875, after a protracted illness of seven weeks, of bilious and 
typhoid fever, and his father is still living (1879) ^-t 85 years. 
His only child. Amy Harris G., was born November 27, 1856, and 
died at the age of three years. She and her father are buried 
in Hilldale Cemetery, Haverhill, Mass. His wife received the 
degree of M. D. from the New England Female Medical Col- 
lege in March, 1873, and practiced medicine in Haverhill. Mrs, 
G. married Mr. William Little, of Hampstead, N. H. 



NATHAN SHERBURN HASELTINE. 

Son of Thomas and F21izabeth (Sanborn) Haseltine, was born 
in Chester, N. H., May 29, 1829. Pie fitted for college at Gil- 
manton Academy. Graduated at Dartmouth College in 1855, 
at Andover Theological Seminary in 1858, and while in college 
and at the seminary (one of his associates says), he was 
"a diligent student and an earnest Christian." Was licensed 
to preach December 29, 1857, by Middlesex South Association, 
sitting at Framingham, Mass., and was ordained and installed 
pastor of the Congregational Church in Springfield, Vt., Janu- 
ary 13, 1859, R^^'- Jonathan Clement, D. D., of Woodstock, Vt., 
the pastor of his boyhood, preaching the sermon. 

Stimulated by the warm welcome the church gave him, and 
by his own love and zeal in and for his chosen work, he entered 
upon his labors with an ardor too great for his strength, and 
early in the following year began to show signs of failing health. 
Toiling from 4 a. m. to 10 p. m. had proved too much. January 



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22, i860, one year and nine days from the date of his ordina- 
tion, the Master called him to rest. He is to this day warmly 
cherished in the memory of all his people. His disease was 
tuberculous consumption. In his ministry he was talented, 
devoted and benevolent. July 29, 1859, Mr. Haseltine married 
Miss Mary A., daughter of Rev. R. F. Lawrence, of Claremont, 
N. H., who afterwards married W. W. Whitcomb, of Boston, 
Mass. 



RICHERAND HOWE. 

Was born in Shelburne, N. H., August 10, 1833. Fall of 
1847 attended Lancaster Academy; spring of 1848, Gould's 
Academy, Bethel, Me., where he fitted for college under Dr. 
N. T. True. He spent one year on the Atlantic and St. Law- 
rence Railroad, and benefited his health. During his last col- 
lege vacation he began the study of medicine with his father. 
After graduating he assisted the fall term at Fryeburg Academy, 
continuing the study of medicine with Dr. Barrows, of Frye- 
burg. He remained at home during the winter ; taught, spring 
and summer term, in Orange, N. J., and the next winter in 
Buckfield, Me. He prepared to attend medical lectures, but 
gave it up on account of impaired health. Taught school in 
Concord, Mass., the winter of 1857-8, and from there went 
West to improve his health. Travelling" most of the time 
through the summer, he took a trip up the Mississippi to 
Minnesota ; came back to Clinton, Iowa, and remained there 
nearly two years, teaching at first, then engineering. From 
there he went to Cedar Rapids on the C. R. & M. Railroad, 
remaining there until the fall of i860, when he was called home 
to Shelburne, N. H., by the death of his father, to settle the 
estate. He taught school during the winter, and suffered some 
from dumb ague in consequence of change of climate, and con- 
cluded it would be best to return West, which he did the sum- 
mer of 1 86 1, to his engineering at Cedar Rapids, but did not 
probably recover his usual state of health. He had been in 
Chicago engineering nearly a year, when he was taken sick 



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with typhoid fever, and after an illness of three weeks, died 
March 8, 1863, and his remains were taken to Gilead, Me., for 
interment. 



CHARLES CARROLL LUND. 

The Granite Monthly, of Concord, N. H., January, 1881, says : 
" Charles Carroll Lund, son of Joseph S. Lund, was born in 
Concord, December 9, 1832 ; attended the public schools of that 
city, and the Pembroke and Thetford (Vermont) Academies ; 
studied civil engineering with General George Stark, of Nashua ; 
graduated from Dartmouth College, Class of 1855 ; read law 
with Hon. Asa Fowler, of Concord, and Messrs. Sanborn & 
French, of St. Paul, Minn. ; was admitted to the bar in that 
State in 1857, and commenced to practice there. In 1864 he 
returned to Concord, and formed a partnership with Hon. L. 
D. Stevens, which continued until 1869. In 1870 he was 
appointed a Chief of Division in the construction of the 
Northern Pacific Railroad, his field of work lying in Oregon. 
On his return to this city, he was appointed Assistant Engineer 
in the construction of the Concord water-works, and Chief 
Engineer of the Leominster (Massachusetts) water-works. On 
the death of Mr. Adams, Mr. Lund was appointed Chief Engi- 
neer of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, and built 
several extensions to that road in a manner so ^scientific as to 
establish his reputation as one of the most daring, skilful and 
successful engineers in New England. Besides his connection 
with the railroad, Mr. Lund was City Engineer of Concord, 
and had an extensive private practice, reaching beyond the 
limits of the State. Mr. Lund represented Concord two years 
in the legislature, and was a trustee in the Public Library, and 
of Blossom Hill Cemetery. In Masonry, he was a Knight 
Templar. In 1861 Mr. Lund was joined in marriage to Lydia 
French, of Concord. Their children are Fred B. Lund, born 
1865, and Joseph W. Lund, born 1867. Suddenly, in the prime 
of manhood, in the midst of usefulness, Mr. Lund died, De- 
cember 4, 1880. Mr. Lund was of medium height, powerful 
frame, industrious, indefatigable. In his family relations he 



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was loving and tender ; as a friend he was faithful and true. 
Possessed of good judgment, his decision was quick and un- 
erring. His death is an irreparable loss to his family and to 
his profession ; and the community, of which he was an active 
and useful member, will long miss him and hold his memory 
in honor and esteem." 

The press generally, of his native State, was unanimous in 
the assertion that he was a ''most useful citizen, possessed of a 
vast store of practical knowledge ever at his command, and his 
removal by death in the prime of manhood is a public loss." 
Such was the noble tribute to him by the public ; and so far as 
the wide world is concerned, what more could be said of any 
"active and useful citizen." 

But it is within the province of his classmates to draw nearer 
to him, and note the true manliness, gentleness, strength and 
fine fibre of his character. No one could interpret him except 
by daily living with him and sharing his joys and sorrows, for 
he seemed, almost, to seek to keep the finest side of his nature 
hidden from human ken. I do not think it was possible for his 
class to know him as he really was in college days, for he was 
careless of self and could not conform to forms and ceremonies. 
He would not tolerate ''shams," and perhaps too often, for his 
own reputation, called things by their right names. But he 
was no idler in college. Whenever he forsook his curriculum, 
he could always be found at some literary work which he chose 
to mark out for himself. His taste for literature was fine and 
critical, and a new book added to his own private library made 
him forgetful of all recitations until it was read and digested ; 
and then he would turn to me (his room-mate) and ask how far 
along we were in the text-book. Still, his course in college was 
useful to him, and I think when he went out into the "world's 
broad field of battle," it was the prophecy of the Class of 1855 
that he would be a " hero in the strife ; " and he was. 

After graduation I saw very little of him, as he soon cast 
his lot in the, then, "far West," while mine was in the cotton 
region of the South ; but an occasional letter from him always 
showed the bent of his mind, for he could never write or speak 



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without doing that. Seldom, if ever, did he write me without 
sending me some bit of a hterary gem, saying, *' I find the 
above in my pocket, and hope you will enjoy it as well as I did." 
I judge the practice of law was antagonistic to his nature and 
temperament. He could not endure the long, dry forms of that 
profession. I am not prepared to say he was not a good law- 
yer. The only knowledge I ever had of his legal ability was at 
one time he paid me a visit, and while with me I had occasion 
to make several ''Proofs of Loss" for claims on fire insurance 
companies. My printed forms were of the Pennsylvania stand- 
ard, running back to the time when '' Man knoweth not to the 
contrary." He looked them over and brushed them aside, and 
with one-fifth the number of words wrote a few lines, saying, 
" There is a plain form in the English language^ and I know it 
is legal;" and so it proved. Whatever his success may have 
been in the law, I have no doubt the discipline experienced in 
that profession was useful to him. He was of such a restless, 
impulsive nature, that he needed to be tied down to old con- 
servative methods in order to hold his wonderful capabilities in 
check until the favorable opportunity came for their practical 
application. That period was reached in 1870, when at the 
head of forty men he marked out a track through the wilds of 
Washington Territ-ory and Oregon for the commerce of a con- 
tinent. Success crowned his efforts then, and paved the way 
for still greater achievements in all the practical and scientific 
requirements of civil engineering. He had a positive enthusi- 
asm for this profession, and was master of it, whether in con- 
structing dams or reservoirs or a system of sewerage, or driving 
the iron horse over the rugged elevations and through and 
across the frightful chasms of the White Mountain region. 
Manly and genial everywhere, he commanded the respect and 
confidence of all ; but his home life crowned him with the high- 
est type of nobility. In his last letter to me, after reviewing 
his course for ten years through sunshine and shadow, he says : 
" But am easier now, and have lived and shall live to educate 
the boys. I have two — Fred B. and Joe. W. — good boys, and 
and a good wife, for which I am very thankful, and of whom I 



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am very proud. I am trying to keep the confidence and love 
of the boys and make companions of them, so they will always 
feel that whatever they may do they shall not keep it from me.'' 
His wife writes : " What capabilities there were in that nature 
I think you know ; you never can know how his great heart 
spent its love upon his family." But that happy home circle 
was to be broken. " Death loves a shining mark," and Charles 
Carroll Lund was his chosen prize. On the fourth day of De- 
cember, 1880, that family was separated here, but it will be for- 
ever united ///^;r. He has gone ''just before." The older of 
the two boys is in the Sophomore class at Harvard College. 
The younger is at Phillips (Andover) Academy. Both are more 
than fulfilling the sanguine expectations of a fond father. The 
wife — and mother of the boys — still remains at Concord, and 
all of them gather there from time to time, to twine affectionate 
and grateful wreathes to decorate the grave of the devoted hus- 
band and dear father, who sleeps by the waters of the Merrimac. 

Frederick Bates. 



STEPHEN SARGENT MORRILL. 

Son of Deacon Asa and Sally (Sargent) Morrill, was born in 
Danville, Vt., December 24, 1831. Becoming a Christian in 
early life, the question of entering the ministry pressed itself 
upon him. Without deciding the point, he entered upon a 
course of study, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1855. 
After graduation he taught one year as Principal of the Cale- 
donia County Grammar School, at Peacham, Vt., and while 
there decided upon his duty, and went to Andover Theological 
Seminary in the fall of 1856 and remained two years, and then 
went to Chicago and entered the Chicago Theological Semi- 
nary in October, 1858, and graduated there April 28, 1859. 
He went immediately to Maiden, 111., where he had a previous 
call to settle, and was ordained May 12, 1859, ^^^ installed 
Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Maiden, where he 
remained until he entered the army. June 5, 1862, he was 
commissioned by President Lincoln as Hospital Chaplain in 



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the United States army, and stationed at Mound City, 111. In 
March, 1865, he resigned because his family needed him and 
because of the partial failure of his health. He returned to 
New England, and began to preach at Hillsboro' Bridge, N. H., 
in May, 1865, where he remained till October, 1868, when he 
left to try the effect of change of climate upon his health, and 
spent the winter in Illinois ; was disappointed, and returned to 
New England in March, 1869. In July, 1869, he removed 
to Henniker, N. H., to become Pastor of the Congregational 
Church. The people here reluctantly gave him up, August 8, 
1 87 1, on account of his enfeebled condition. After a few 
months spent in business in Boston, he thought himself strong 
enough to take a new charge, and he became Acting Pastor at 
Harvard, Mass., early in the fall of 1874, but debility soon com- 
pelled him to desist from pulpit effort. In August, 1877, he 
removed to Amherst, Mass., for the education of his children, 
his oldest son being in college. Soon after this his second son 
died of diphtheria, and he followed within a year. He died of 
bilious fever at his brother's house in Danville, Vt., May 2, 
1878. He was married July 28, 1859, to Miss Ellen B. F. Bach- 
elder, of Loudon, N. H., who, with two children, was left to 
mourn his loss. Mr. Morrill was a very acceptable pastor and 
preacher in all the places where he labored. He was a person 
of scholarly and refined tastes, and had the faculty of winning 
to himself all he met. He possessed so many of the Christian 
graces, that his death will be no ordinary loss to the denomina- 
tion with which he was connected. His ministry at Henniker 
was blessed with a very precious work of grace, and in all the 
fields he occupied many will rejoice evermore that they were 
permitted to be of his flock. 



HON. CHANDLER RICHARDS. 

Chandler Richards, son of Levi and Sally (Slade) Richards, 
was born March 12, 1829, in Norwich, Vt. He was the young- 
est of a family of six sons and three daughters, being some five 
years younger than the next older child. His father, who had 



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been in declining health for many years, died when he was 
seventeen years of age. He received his early education in the 
public schools of his native town, and pursued his studies pre- 
paratory to college in the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, 
N. H. While in the academy he entered upon a declared Chris- 
tian life, and soon after made a public confession of his faith, 
and united with the Congregational Church in Norwich, Vt. 
At the age of twenty-two he entered college, and throughout the 
four years was characterized by close application to study and 
a Christian life, which commanded the respect of his classmates 
and was a power for good in the college. He graduated, bear- 
ing high rank for scholarship and giving promise of eminent 
usefulness. The life which from childhood had been conscien- 
tious, upright and self-sacrificing, was now mature, consistent 
and christian. For the means to meet the expenses of his col- 
lege course he had depended largely upon his own exertions, 
and so had developed a manliness and self-reliance that was 
admirable. 

His classmates, in their estimate of Mr. Richards, had as- 
signed to him a life-work in the ministry. In their judgment 
his qualities of mind and heart, his sincere spirit of Christian 
devotion, made it reasonable to conclude that his call was to 
preach the gospel. And this seems to have been carefully 
weighed in his own thoughts ; but while it would have gratified 
the strongest desires of his heart, and was that in which his 
soul would have delighted, still he decided after leaving college 
that it was wiser for him to select the legal profession as that 
for which he was best fitted, and opening a field where he could 
do more for truth and righteousness than elsewhere. Immedi- 
ately upon leaving college he was for one year the Principal of 
the Academy in Haverhill, N. H. ; at the same time reading law 
with Hon. Charles R. Morrison, of that place. In August of 
1856 he went West and assumed, September ist, following, the 
position at the head of the Preparatory Department of Kala- 
mazoo College, Michigan. He remained Principal of this pre- 
paratory school until the spring of 1857, when he resumed his 
legal studies with Dewitt May, Esq., of Kalamazoo, and was 



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admitted to the bar June 12, 1857. Mr. Richards at once 
opened a law office in that city, and soon after entered into co- 
partnership with T. R. Sherwood, Esq., who was afterwards a 
Judge in the Supreme Court of Michigan. Early in 1858 he 
went to Paw Paw, county-seat of Van Buren County, Mich., to 
fill the office of Prosecuting Attorney, to which position he 
continued to be elected annually for the succeeding five years. 
Soon after going to Paw Paw he formed a law partnership with 
J. R. Baker, Esq., of that place. This was continued for some 
twelve years, until some time in 1871. 

In 1863 he was appointed Assistant Assessor of Internal 
Revenue, and in 1864 he was elected Judge of Probate, and 
served for five years. During this period his health failed, and 
he was obliged to abandon all professional business and mental 
application of every kind. He retired upon a farm in the town 
of Lawrence, Mich., January 16, 1868, where he remained some 
four years. His health being improved, he returned, March 30, 
1872, to Paw Paw, re-opened his law office, and after a few 
months entered into partnership with J. E. Barnum, Esq., who 
subsequently was of Denver, Col. They were Attorneys for 
the First National Bank of that place, and their office rooms 
were in the same building, immediately over the rooms of the 
bank. Judge Richards continued to hold this position and the 
same rooms to his decease. But Mr. Barnum after a few 
years, on account of ill-health, retired from the firm and went 
West. From 1875 to 1879 Mr. Richards had A. S. Mills, Esq., 
as a law partner. Mr. Mills then became Circuit Judge, and 
Mr. Riahards conducted his business by himself, expecting to 
have his son associated with him after his graduation from col- 
lege in 1880. Judge Richards identified himself closely with the 
church and its great enterprises for good in every place where 
he resided. He was no stickler for denomination ; although a 
Congregationalist, yet when located where other church rela- 
tions were more practicable, he could work for Christ just as 
heartily with Christians of other names, and while residing in 
Paw Paw he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, under 
the pastoral care of Rev. H. W. Harvey. 



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Judge Richards had for some time experienced rheumatism 
and an affection of the brain. He had been obliged to suspend 
all mental work as we have seen ; but his death at last was 
quite sudden. He had attended to his office duties as usual 
every day but one for some time. He was on his way to his 
office, after having dined with his family, on the afternoon of 
his death. He faltered by the way, stepped into a house near 
the side-walk, asked for a chair, saying, " I am ill ; send for 
Harry at the bank." These were his last words. He was 
unconscious when his son reached him, and soon passed on to 
his heavenly home, November 17, 1872. 

Rev. H. W. Harvey, his pastor, and Rev. T. D. Marsh, of 
Grand Rapids, Mich., a former pastor, attended the funeral ser- 
vices on Sunday, November 19th, following his death, and four 
weeks after — December 3d — they together conducted a memo- 
rial service in the Presbyterian Church at Paw Paw, which was 
largely attended by people filled with the unusual sorrow felt 
because of the public loss sustained by this sudden death of 
Judge Richards. The burial took place in Prospect Hill Ceme- 
tery, Paw Paw, Mich., and the last resting place of a truly good 
man and noble Christian is marked by a monument of marble 
from his native State — Vermont. 

The memorial discourses preached by Revs. Messrs. Harvey 
and Marsh were published in full in the local papers of Paw 
Paw, and are graceful and affectionate tributes to the memory 
of one who fulfilled a course of public service and Christian use- 
fulness while life lasted, such as won the respect and honor of all 
who knew him, and leaving the world better for his having lived 
in it. It was said of Judge Richards, in view of his ability and 
influence, " He was not unworthy of a place beside the really 
great men of the nation." 

Mr. Richards was married June 5, 1859, to Addie P. Wilcox, 
of Clinton, Conn. Their children were Harry Slack, born No- 
vember 30, 1859, Horace Chandler, born December 9, 1863, 
died February 7, 1864, Isabel Helen, born April 23, 1865, Rena 
Adelia, born March 15, 1867. Soon after the decease of her 
husband, Mrs. Richards removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., in order 



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to give her daughters better educational facilities. They are 
both members of the University of this city, and young ladies of 
superior abilities and scholarship. The son graduated from 
Michigan University in the Class of 1880, studied law, and suc- 
ceeded to his father's business. He was married May 2, 1883, 
in Ann Arbor, to Kittie M. Greene, daughter of Hon. Jacob L. 
Greene, of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. They 
reside in Paw Paw, Mich., and have one son born May 8, 1884, 
whose name is Karl Greene Richards. 

E. O. Jameson. 



FRANK MARVIN ROBINSON. 

Was born at Reading, Vt., August 2, 1828, and spent his 
boyhood on a farm. Having determined to secure for himself 
a liberal education, his preparatory studies were mainly pur- 
sued at the academy in West Randolph, Vt, of which the 
Principal was Austin Adams, a Dartmouth graduate of the 
Class of 1848, a man of fine scholarship, afterwards an eminent 
member of the bar of Iowa, and for many years, and at present, 
one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of that State. 

At Robinson's graduation from West Randolph Academy, 
the subject of his oration was " Law and Order," indicating the 
early bent of his mind towards the profession which he after- 
wards adopted and towards the conservatism which has ever dis- 
tinguished that profession, and which was a marked trait in his 
character. It is said that on the occasion mentioned he dealt 
with his subject in such a manner, and exhibited such earnest- 
ness and depth of feeling in its delivery, that the impression 
made upon his hearers was quite beyond the usual effect of 
youthful efforts of the kind, and that it is to this day vividly 
remembered by some of the oldest citizens of the town. 

After leaving college in 1855, he entered upon the study of 
law at Woodstock, in his native county, in the office of Messrs. 
Tracy, Converse & Barnett, one of the most prominent law 
firms in the State, of whose members one then represented the 
district in Congress, another became Governor of the State, 



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and the third was for many years one of the Justices of its 
Supreme Court. The instruction received in such an office, 
and the associations connected therewith, could not fail to make 
a strong and favorable impression upon the young law student, 
and were of no slight advantage to his whole after life. In 
1856 he looked about for a field of action, decided upon the 
growing West, and took up his residence in Dubuque, Iowa, 
where he at once began the practice of the law, and continued 
in practice until the day of his death, March 25, 1885. In 1862 
he formed a partnership with his early preceptor, Austin Adams, 
which continued fourteen years, when Mr. Adams left his pri- 
vate practice for a seat upon the bench of the Supreme Court 
of the State. Afterwards the law firm of Robinson, Powers & 
Tracy was formed (the junior member of which was Mr. Robin- 
son's son-in-law), and continued until dissolved by his death. 
In 1857 he married Miss Laura G. Spaulding, of his native 
town, whom he had known from boyhood, and who, with their 
three daughters, survives to mourn his loss. For a number of 
years he had been subject to attacks from a disease, in regard 
to which he wrote me in August, 1884 : " I have, since the 7th 
inst., had a severe turn with my old kidney trouble, and am not 
able to work to-day. My sufferings at present are from weak- 
ness. Think I will be all right again soon." The attack from 
which he died began on the 15th of March, and after ten days 
of severe suffering his strong constitution yielded to what his 
physicians pronounced acute peritonitis, as the immediate cause 
of death. Of his last moments, I am permitted to quote from 
a letter of his afflicted widow to our Class Secretary : " Late 
the evening before his death, for a little time he was conscious 
of his situation, recognized all the family and the doctor, and 
to each in turn spoke a few words so characteristic of himself 
as to leave no doubt of his clearness of mind." And I will 
venture to , quote one other sentence from the same letter : 
" The expressions of esteem in which you held my husband are 
a kind of satisfaction, as well as the good opinion and kind feel- 
ing which are manifested by his friends, his business acquaint- 
ances, and his classmates. What he was to those of his own 



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household is now only represented by their utter desolation." 
To the city of Dubuque, where he resided nearly thirty years, 
Mr. Robinson was more than a lawyer absorbed in the practice 
of his profession. He was among the most active, energetic, 
enterprising and public-spirited of her citizens, and his efforts 
and influence in public affairs, and in various business circles, 
have earned for him a name prominent and secure among her 
public benefactors. He was, at a critical time in the city's 
affairs, a member of its council, and by his sound judgment 
and persevering labors did much to extricate it from financial 
embarrassment and establish its credit upon a solid and perma- 
nent basis. He was also a stockholder and director of the 
Chamberlain Plow Company, of the First National Bank, and 
of the Dubuque Couny Bank, and in all such relations his intel- 
ligence, good sense, and honesty of purpose were greatly relied 
upon by his associates. At a meeting of the Dubuque County 
Bar, held on the day of his death, the following resolutions were 
adopted in respect to his memory : 

" I. — That in his death we all feel that we have lost a personal friend. We 
part with one whose professional life of more than twenty-five years was 
characterized by unvarying courtesy and honor in all his relations with the 
brethren of the profession, and by integrity, zeal and intelligence in the con- 
duct of matters entrusted to him by clients. 

"II. — That in his death our city loses one of its best citizens; one who, 
when a member of its government at a critical period of its affairs, gave much 
time and labor to the duties of the office, and executed all public trusts with 
good judgment and fidelity. 

"III. — That we extend to the bereaved family our warmest sympathy. 
"We all knew his constant watchfulness and anxiety for their comfort and 
welfare. We need not tell them that everywhere and always he was a devoted 
husband and father. 

" IV. — That we will attend his funeral in a body, and that these resolutions 
be published, and a copy of them be furnished to the family of the deceased." 

Appropriate committees were appointed to present the reso- 
lutions to the circuit and district courts of Dubuque County, 
and to the Supreme Court of the State. 

The funeral took place from the beautiful family residence, 
which he had recently built and fitted up as a home for years 
of anticipated comfort and happiness, and was attended by a 
large concourse of the city's representative men and more 



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intimate personal friends. The funeral discourse was delivered 
by a former pastor of the Congregational Church of Dubuque, 
and the mortal remains of our classmate were laid to rest in 
Linwood Cemetery. 

We knew him before he had entered upon the duties of man- 
hood. (The proceedings at his funeral indicate in what high 
esteem he was held by the community in which his life-work 
was performed). There is little occasion to add that he had 
been laborious and sucessful beyond a majority of his class, and 
I am inclined to believe that he accumulated and left a fortune 
equal to that of any of its members. 

In college, while he was not quick or brilliant in scholarship, 
he was diligent and painstaking in getting at the substance of 
the matter before him. But if it required patient, hard labor 
to learn, what he learned he assimilated and held with a firm 
grasp. All his classmates must recall his large, strong, well- 
developed form, and his steady, deliberate gait. His mind was. 
equally strong, and its movements were regular, methodical 
and persistent. It was plain and practical, rather than aesthetic 
or ornate ; unimaginative and slow, but equable and tenacious 
of purpose. His disposition was social, cordial and affection- 
ate, and his relations with his fellow-students were, without 
exception, I believe, pleasant and friendly, and unmarred by 
envy or malice. We roomed near each other during the whole 
four years of college life, and I knew and saw him day by day 
and year by year, and do not recall an act or scene to his dis- 
credit. While in college, it was a favorite pastime with me to 
study the characters of my classmates, and speculate upon their 
probable careers in life ; and from year to year, since then, I 
have tried to trace the connection between their achievements 
and what I knew of them in those early days. There have 
been many disturbing elements in the calculations ; many con- 
tradictions and surprises in the results. Circumstances may 
have thwarted predispositions, and turned the currents from 
their natural course, but on the whole, the seed sown in youth 
has produced fruit of its kind, and the end was foreshadowed 
in the beginning. 



so 



Robinson was older and more mature than the average of his 
classmates, and the steady, patient, persistent tenor of his ways 
forecast for him a firm and measured march along the line of 
labor and success. He realized the prophecy, but has fallen in 
the midst of a useful, active life. One by one we must all in 
turn fall ; and the time has already come, when, in the course 
of nature, our ranks must henceforth be thinned much more 
rapidly than heretofore, and soon those who remain will speak 
of themselves as the survivors of the ''Class of '55." 

Honoring the memory of him who has so recently fallen, ripe 
in usefulness, respected most by those knew him best, let us 
keep alive the trust that when the last member of our Class 
shall have gone, there will be a full and glad reunion in the land 
that lies beyond the fretful current of life's river. 

S. R. Bond. 



DANIEL STEARNS. 

Was born at Fitchburg, Mass., April 11, 1831. Fitted for 
college in the Fitchburg High School, and taught one term at 
Fitchburg, while in college. After graduation he studied law 
with T. K. Ware, Esq., of Fitchburg, and was admitted to the 
bar during the winter of 1858-59, and practiced law in Fitch- 
burg, where he died, unmarried, January 31, 1868. He was 
drafted during the war, but was excused on account of the 
partial paralysis, which disabled him when his classmates knew 
him. He was Trial Justice for a year or two before he died, 
and was Insurance Agent for several companies in Fitchburg. 
He was a true-hearted friend to those who knew him well, ever 
ready to lend a helping hand where it was needed, and much 
missed from where he lived. 



JACOB EDWIN TAYLOR. 

Was born in Woodstock, Vt., May 16, 183 1. After gradu- 
ation he taught at North Granville, N. Y., in the Academy, 
until the spring of 1856, when he went to Woodstock, Vt., as 



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Principal of the High School, which position he filled for two 
and a half years, when he entered the law office of Converse & 
French, and was admitted to the bar in i860. He went im- 
mediately to Charleston, Coles County, III, to practice law, but 
finding it slow starting, and having a good chance for trade, he 
went into the grocery trade, and did a good business while he 
lived, leaving his family $10,000 at his decease. He was Wor- 
shipful Master of the Masonic Lodge there at the time of his 
death, which occurred June 20, 1868, after a sickness of four 
months from bilious trouble, to which he had been subject from 
the time he entered college. He was married at Woodstock, 
Vt., in May, i860, to Miss Ellen Eaton, daughter of Joel Eaton, 
Esq. His first child, a son, died May, 1863, at ten months; 
Mary Taylor was born July 6, 1884., and Richard Everett 
Taylor was born March 30, 1866. J. B. Farnsworth, one who 
knew Taylor well for upwards of twenty years, from being 
scholars together at the High School, — as his teacher, as 
college-mates, while he was teaching at Woodstock, and while 
he was in trade at the West, — says : '* His life was most ex- 
emplary and honorable, and he won the esteem of all who knew 
him. He filled every position with credit to himself, and his 
memory will ever remain as a green spot in life's journey." 



CHARLES AMOS TENNEY. 

Was born in January, 1835. He was quite unwell when he 
graduated, and did not improve during the fall and winter 
succeeding. In the spring of 1856 he went to Franklin, N. H., 
to be cured in a Hydropathic Institution. He lingered along 
without improvement, and when advised to leave there, hoped 
he should soon be better ; but worn out and exhausted, he was 
attacked with dysentery, and died in a few days, August 11, 
1856. He was an excellent scholar, quite original, read much, 
and had a great memory ; somewhat devoted to the violin, 
naturally talented and strong in his opinions. The first of the 
Class to pass on to the unseen world, though he is the last on 
this list. 



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JOHN FOSTER PORTER. 

The oldest of four children of John and Jane Frances (Foster) 
Porter, was born in Quechee, Vt., May ii, 1832. Hon. John 
Porter, his father, has been Judge of the Probate Court of 
Windsor County, Vt., for thirty-five years, and is still hale and 
hearty. He is survived also by his brother, Hon. Charles W. 
Porter, Secretary of State for Vermont, and two sisters — Mrs. 
Charles Smith, of Boston, and Mrs. John Dennison, of New 
Bedford, Mass. The subject of this sketch received a good 
common school education in his native town, and fitted for col- 
lege at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. While in 
college, he was always genial and pleasant, making no enemies ; 
a good friend to all who became acquainted with him, and he 
maintained a fair rank in scholarship. After graduation he 
taught a Select School in West Troy, N. Y. He was with the 
law firm of Seymour & Van Santvoord, in Troy, N. Y., in 
1856 and '57, was a member of the Albany Law School during 
the year 1857, ^.nd was admitted to the Bar at Albany, N. Y., 
December 8, 1857, and has practiced law in Troy, N. Y., since 
that time, and obtained a lucrative practice. He formed a law 
partnership with John M. Landon, and succeeded him as Police 
Justice when Mr. Landon entered the army at the breaking out 
of the rebellion, and was one of the Justices of the Police 
Court of Troy in 1861-62. He was Clerk of the Board of 
Supervisors of Troy one term — 1873 to 1875 — and was ''one 
of Troy's most respected citizens, and a prominent member of 
the Rensselaer County Bar." Mr. Porter was Vice President and 
a director of the Commercial Telephone Company. He had an 
extensive practice with the shirt and collar manufacturers of the 
city, many of whom entrusted him with all their legal business. 
He had an office at No. 282 River Street, where I called upon 
him in June, 1879, ^^^ he resided at No. 2 Waverly Place. 

Mr. Porter was married June 2, 1870, to Mary E. Blair, of 
Troy, N. Y. A son, John Blair Porter, was born December 31, 
1871, and died April 5, 1873. Jennie Louise, born July 25, 
1874, with her mother, still survives. Mary Blair Porter, born 
June 24, 1876, died May 24, 1882. 



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Mr. Porter was at the Class Meeting, June 24, 1885, and we 
enjoyed it very much. He drove away from the Dartmouth 
Hotel in good spirits that afternoon, with good wishes for all 
the Class, and anxious to receive the published report. In 
August, as had been his custom for several years, he and his 
wife left Troy for a drive through the Adirondacks, and con- 
tinued their journeying into Vermont, and to his father's resi- 
dence, the old homestead, at Quechee, Vt., where he was 
spending the closing days of his summer vacation, and his life, 
as it proved. Two weeks before his death he returned to Troy 
and transacted important business, returning in the afternoon 
to Quechee. He said to a friend at the time, that he was not 
feeling well, but nothing serious was apprehended ; but he grew 
worse, and died of typhoid-bilious fever, September 6, 1885, and 
his remains were taken to Troy for interment in his lot at Oak- 
wood, where two children had preceded him. Mr. Porter was a 
man of high character, and an honor to his professsion. His 
life, private and professional, was unblemished. In society he 
was a favorite because of his faculty for pleasing his friends. 
A brother lawyer said : " Mr. Porter was a man above reproach. 
He lived a pure and profitable life. He was conscientious with 
his clients and reasonable in his charges, and his loss will be 
mourned by a large circle of lawyers and laymen." He was a 
member of St. John's Episcopal Church, and had attended 
diocesan conventions as a delegate from that society. 

The Secretary. 



Rev. Dr. Samuel G. Brown, born 18 13, died November 4, 1885. 



Rev. Dr. Daniel J. Noyes, born 18 12, died December 22, 1885. 



Prof. Edwin D. Sanborn, born 1808, died December 29, 1885, 



Prof. Oliver P. Hubbard, only, is left of our Faculty. 



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